The sizes and locations of Antarctic icebergs are taken from (US)
National Ice Center analyses of 30 November 1995, 4 April 1996,
19-23 May, 1997, and 10 July 1998. The data are from previous observations
(dated on the tables). The current position of the icebergs will be different
from that shown, possibly greatly different. Sizes are approximate, and
the area approximation is particularly crude (it isn't even one of the
fields the analysts compute. The area is computed assuming that the bergs
are rectangular. They aren't, so don't rely on the areas for much except
a relative sense of size.)

Between May, 1997 and July, 1998, we lost D-16 from the Amery basin,
B-10B, B-12 and B-13 from the Ross Sea, and gained A-36 and A-37
in the Weddell Sea, and C-13. B-10A has shrunk substantially,
though it is still quite large. Largest berg currently is D-15, at
about 6170 square km, roughly 2400 square miles.

The 1997 analysis changed to using the day of the year for dates. A-32
and C-5, present in November 1995, had disintegrated, melted, or were not
findable in the 4 April 1996 analysis. Two new bergs, C-8 and D-10, are
present in the 4 April 1996 analysis. 'Movement' is the change of location
in latitude and longitude between the two analyses. Speeds are typically
higher than this would suggest because the tracks tend to loop back on
themselves.

The 'A', 'B' (and other alphabetic characters can occur) denote that these
are elements of the same original iceberg. B-9 originally contained both
B-9A and B-9B (as well as significant area which has already fragmented
in to pieces too small to track in the analysis) so the original size was
over 4450 km^2. B10 was originally over 6600 km^2. A-32 is the iceberg
which broke off the Larsen ice shelf in January- February 1995. While the
Larsen berg was large, there were already several larger bergs in the Antarctic.

Country, State, Lake, and City sizes are from the 1988 Information
Please Almanac. Please do send your additions for places/areas in the range
of 100 to 10000 square kilometers (40 to 4000 square miles).